Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.55.1

1998.349.55.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A youth playing a skin drum with others nearby watching. He seems to be playing the drum in connection with the Luo funeral ceremony of driving away death (tero buru). The people at the ceremony may be partly hidden to the right. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza ?Kanyaura

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Research Notes

This is the same group as in 1998.349.204 & .224, which is there described as at some place called Kanyaura (which may be a misspelt name of a certain village). [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.55.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.55.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.55.1/>.

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